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God or Spirit governs the universe through great mental laws that work out the divine will and purpose, always operating from Intelligence. This Intelligence is so vast, and the power so great that our human minds cannot even grasp it. All that we can hope to do is to learn something of the way in which it works and by harmonizing ourselves with it, to so align ourselves with Spirit that our lives may be controlled by the great harmony that obtains in all the higher laws of nature but has been very imperfectly manifested in us. This brings us to the second point of consideration.

WHY AND WHAT IS MAN?
We find in the physical universe that automatic laws govern everything. For instance, the tree cannot say “I will not” because of the law that holds it in place. It grows without any volition of its own. So it is with all nature but when we come to the human we find a different manifestation of the Spirit, a being who can say “I choose.” In all creation, the human alone is an individual, the human alone is free and yet man alone wants, is sick, suffers and is unhappy. “Man marks the earth with ruin,” why? because he has not found his true nature. The very thing that should free him and eventually will do so, now limits him. God could not make an individual without making him able to think and he cannot think without bringing upon himself the results of his thought, good or bad. This does not mean using two powers but using the One from two standpoints. Nothing in itself is either good or bad. All things exist in mind as a potentiality.